{"id":638,"date":"2025-05-19T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/?p=638"},"modified":"2025-05-19T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:47:12","slug":"june-4-7-fall-about-laughing-with-the-hokitika-dramatic-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/june-4-7-fall-about-laughing-with-the-hokitika-dramatic-society\/","title":{"rendered":"June 4-7:  Fall About Laughing with the Hokitika Dramatic Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Doors open 6.30pm.  Show starts 7pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets $20 from Hokitika&#8217;s Regent Theatre, or online at hokitikaregent.com (plus booking fee)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As autumn turns to winter, Hokitika Dramatic Society takes it upon themselves to keep you warm and cosy with four evenings of hilarious one-act plays, plus delicious brownies and mocktails for you to purchase.  We have prepared for you a trio of short plays that are bound to leave you in stitches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bad Auditions By Bad Actors<\/strong> by Ian McWethy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A casting director has one day to find the leads for a community theater production of Romeo and Juliet. But what seems like a simple task proves impossible when the pool of hopeful actors is apalling. This hilarious comedy will bring you to the last place you&#8217;d ever want to be &#8230; behind the doors of a casting session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starring Lisa Reinhardt, Scott Matthews, Suze Harris, Don Neale, Tasha Day, Bron Rodda, Ino Keldermann<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Love Struck<\/strong> by Elizabeth Robertshaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A comic take on the Bond genre with Russian spies, double identities and more puns than you can shake a martini at. The setting is Cupid\u2019s Corner a 70\u2019s TV dating show with bachelorettes, a prize bachelor, and sleazy host, Guy Valentine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starring Patrick Phelps, Brooke Mellsop, Susan Prendergast, Elmo Young, Gecko Jordan, Lee Hutchison<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Promageddon <\/strong>by Dan Dietz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a nuclear apocalypse hits on prom night, there are only four survivors. Trapped in a high-school basement, these kids are forced to socialize with the very people they wouldn&#8217;t have been caught dead with just hours earlier. A hilarious dark comedy about the end of the world &#8212; and what comes next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starring Siobhan Thornley, Sam Nicholls, Jeannelize Diplock, Rishjarn Hereaka, and Lily Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doors open 6.30pm. Show starts 7pm Tickets $20 from Hokitika&#8217;s Regent Theatre, or online at hokitikaregent.com (plus booking fee) As autumn turns to winter, Hokitika Dramatic Society takes it upon <a href=\"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/june-4-7-fall-about-laughing-with-the-hokitika-dramatic-society\/\" class=\"read-more button-fancy -red\"><span class=\"btn-arrow\"><\/span><span class=\"twp-read-more text\">Continue Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldlodgetheatrehokitika.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}